“To state the obvious, the past six years have been really, really hard for this country.”

“And they’ve been really tough for our party. Just ask [former DCCC chair] Steve [Israel]. They’ve been really tough for our party. And together we made some really, really tough decisions — decisions that weren’t at all popular, hard to explain,” said Biden.

Top that, Hillary (or Republicans for that matter).

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Other news: Mitt Romney announced that he’s given up his quest to become the modern-day Harold Stassen. At least for now — he could always change his mind.